Kingdom of the Strong

Acclaimed crime writer Tony Cavanaugh is back with a gripping new novel featuring Australia’s answer to Michael Connelly’s Hieronymus Bosch – Darian Richards.

Darian Richards is an ex-cop, a good one. He did whatever it took to solve a crime and stop the bad guy. Whatever it took! But after sixteen years as the head of Victoria’s Homicide Squad, he’d had enough of promising victims’ families he’d find the answers they needed. He had to walk away to save his sanity.

Now Police Commissioner Copeland Walsh has tracked Darian down. He needs him to help clear an old case. The death of Isobel Vine. The coroner gave an open finding. An open finding that never cleared the cloud of doubt that hovered over four young cops who were present the night Isobel died.

Twenty-five years later, one of those young cops is next in line to become police commissioner, so Copeland Walsh needs the case closed once and for all. In his mind there is only one man for the job. One man who would be completely independent. One man who has never bowed to political or police pressure. One man who knows how to get the job done – Darian Richards.

Darian is going back to stir a hornet’s nest. But once Darian is on a case he won’t back off tracking down evil, no matter who he has to take down.

‘Cavanaugh has created a fascinating hero who is a law unto himself. Worthy of the world stage’ – West Australian

‘Cavanaugh’s best novel to date’ – Sunday Canberra Times

‘Dark and powerful, this is Cavanaugh’s best novel to date’ – Newcastle Herald

‘This is the Cavanaugh’s fourth novel, and like the others is outstanding’ – Illawarra Mercury

The Darian Richards Series

Promise
Dead Girl Sing
The Soft Touch (Short Story)
The Train Rider
Kingdom of the Strong